I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.

And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.

Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Looking at all you guys with your gigabit connections, meanwhile I’m in Aus and lucky to get 30 down and 15 up

    • hschen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wish i had 15 up, im getting 40 down 3 up. They started putting fiber down my street but not active yet, cant wait to go to 1 gig

    • zikk_transport2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve used to temporarily live with 100mbps internet (~95mbps up/down). What really helped me:

      • CAKE queue (QoS stuff) - every device gets fair share of internet.
      • Since I was lucky to have static speeds - bufferbloat was also eliminated.
      • QoS - my seedbox had only a spare internet. Which means if everyone/me uses internet at max, then seedbox would have literaly 0 bits per second throughput, and would get it once there is spare throughput available.
      • Local DNS-based adblocker. I prefer blocky, but others prefer Pi-Hole. Blocky has a feature to pre-cache commonly used domains, so additional internet performance. :)